#bathnature — Public Fediverse posts

The report of my extensive surveys of invertebrates at Tucking Mill near #Bath #Somerset #UK is now published on Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/396358494_Invertebrate_Surveys_of_Tucking_Mill_2017-2025
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A green lacewing, one of several very similar species, at Bath City Farm @bathcityfarm.bsky.social . Loved by gardeners and vegetable growers as their larvae predate aphids. In #Bath #Somerset #UK.
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A green lacewing, one of several very similar species, at Bath City Farm @bathcityfarm.bsky.social . Loved by gardeners and vegetable growers as their larvae predate aphids. In #Bath #Somerset #UK.
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A green lacewing, one of several very similar species, at Bath City Farm @bathcityfarm.bsky.social . Loved by gardeners and vegetable growers as their larvae predate aphids. In #Bath #Somerset #UK.
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A green lacewing, one of several very similar species, at Bath City Farm @bathcityfarm.bsky.social . Loved by gardeners and vegetable growers as their larvae predate aphids. In #Bath #Somerset #UK.
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #insect #lacewing

A green lacewing, one of several very similar species, at Bath City Farm @bathcityfarm.bsky.social . Loved by gardeners and vegetable growers as their larvae predate aphids. In #Bath #Somerset #UK.
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A gall on Turkey Oak of the gall-wasp Callirhytis erythrocephala - very few British records! Seen at the former golf course on Entry Hill, #Bath #Somerset #UK
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Making friends with Blackberry the juvenile #Robin. In #Bath #Somerset #UK.
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My #Robin friend Henry taking a bath this evening. It's still very dry, so I've been leaving a tub of water out for him. He has been missing for the past couple of days, but returned this evening.
In #Bath #Somerset #UK.
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#StreetWeeds and #PavementPlants from Mount Road, Southdown #Bath #Somerset #UK, life persisting in one of the most extreme habitats: the human built environment. Great Willowherb, Field Madder, Yarrow and Hedge Bedstraw.
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Hoverflies on Small Teasel - Hornet Hoverfly, Lesser Hornet Hoverfly & Rhingia rostrata. All rare 20 years ago, probably spreading due to #climatechange
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Two shieldbugs:
Forest Bug - nymphs feed on trees, adults often feed on caterpillars and fruits
Birch Shieldbug - usually on birches
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Two Tachinid flies - Tachina fera and Eriothrix rufomaculata - parasitic flies on moth caterpillars.
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Clouded Yellow butterfly at Claverton, near #Bath #Somerset #UK.
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Small Skipper on Field Scabious, at Brown's Folly nature reserve, near #Bath #Somerset #UK.

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Thick-legged hoverfly (Syritta pipiens) on an Oxford Ragwort, growing out of a pavement on #Twerton High Street, #Bath #Somerset #UK.
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Hornet Hoverfly (Volucella zonaria) female on a bramble flower at Bath City Farm, #Bath #Somerset #UK.

This harmless Hornet mimic has expanded its range over the past few decades, and a study has strongly linked this expansion to #climatechange.

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Common Motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca) growing out of a wall in #Twerton, #Bath #Somerset #UK.
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Tortoise Bug (Eurygaster cf. testudinaria) on Agrimony, in #Bath #Somerset #UK. A species now moving north, probably in response to climate change.
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Six-belted Clearwing (Bembecia ichneumoniformis) moth on #Twerton Roundhill #Bath #Somerset #UK. Harmless wasp-mimic, foodplant is Bird's-foot Trefoil
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Marbled White butterfly on Twerton Roundhill, #Bath #Somerset #UK. They seem to be having a very good year.
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Clouded Magpie (Abraxas sylvata) at #Hunstrete, near #Bath #Somerset #UK
This moth inhabits woodland, and the caterpillars feed on elms.
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Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) male on a Lesser Burdock flower. Males of this species have a yellow band at the front of thorax.
Newton St Loe, near #Bath #Somerset #UK.
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